Kent at War
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Kent at War

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eBook - ePub

Kent at War

About this book

Kent has a long and illustrious military history dating back to the Roman occupation but the first great conflict of the twentieth century brought the horrors of war to a new generation. Thousands of the county's finest young men were sent off to fight in battlefields around the world including Europe's Western Front, which was less than a day's travel from Kent. Because of its proximity to this major war zone, Kent came to play a pivotal role in the conflict. The ports of Dover and Folkestone were the main staging posts for the British Expeditionary Force and the primary points of arrival for the thousands of wounded servicemen being repatriated from the Front. Its hospitals cared for the wounded and its munitions factories produced the armaments needed to fight the war.The county's geographical position also made it a prime target for German air raids and naval bombardments, which brought the terrors of modern war to the civilian population for the first time.Kent at War tells the remarkable story of the First World War as it unfolded and affected the county and its people.

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Information

Year
2019
eBook ISBN
9781445680743
Edition
0
Topic
History
Subtopic
World War I
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Introduction
  3. Chapter 1 - Prelude to War
  4. Chapter 2 - War Comes to Kent
  5. Chapter 3 - 1915: The Deepening Conflict
  6. Chapter 4 - 1916: Disasters and Attrition
  7. Chapter 5 - 1917: The Coming of the Gothas
  8. Chapter 6 - 1918: The Final Throes
  9. Chapter 7 - 1918–20: Peace and Aftermath
  10. Chapter 8 - In Memoriam
  11. Bibliography